Air Force Materiel Command Makes Galorath's SEER Estimation Modeling Tools Available Across Entire Command.

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EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2002

Galorath Incorporated, the leading provider of advanced modeling tools to plan, estimate and control projects, today announced that the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) has made Galorath's SEER estimation modeling tools available to its entire Command. The Command-wide license is part of an initiative to increase the cost estimating capability across the entire Air Force. It enables all personnel at any of the 15 Command sites to use both the software model, SEER-SEM, and the hardware model, SEER-H.

"We are trying to build a robust tool bag that will be available to cost analysts and programs across AFMC," said Robert Novak, Senior Technical Cost Advisor to HQ AFMC. According to Novak, the initiative has two goals. The first is to relieve the administrative burden of each Center to separately license the tools. The second, and probably the most important, is to put the tools in the hands of the estimators that previously did not have access. "The intent is to improve cost estimating across AFMC through the consistent application of community-accepted parametric cost estimating models, such as SEER," said Novak.

For 15 years SEER tools have been used at individual Air Force bases. "The Air Force was our first customer back in 1988," said Dan Galorath, founder and president of Galorath Incorporated. "Since then our tools have been used on hundreds of different projects at the Air Force. We are thrilled to have been chosen to support their initiative and to be able to make the tools more widely available."

About Galorath Incorporated:

For more than 20 years, project managers, engineers and costing personnel throughout the world have turned to Galorath Incorporated for the industry's most comprehensive set of decision-support and process management tools. Complemented by extensive consulting and support services, Galorath's SEER estimation and analysis tools define, analyze and manage software, hardware and DFM projects, from early concepts through upgrade and maintenance phases.

An innovator in software management parametric analysis, Galorath's SEER tools derive cost, schedule and staffing estimates by assessing the interaction and impact of product, organizational and even operational variables. This parametric methodology, coupled with the industry's most comprehensive knowledge bases, creates a rapid and powerful view of the critical factors driving program decision and determining success. For more information contact Galorath Incorporated at 100 N. Sepulveda Blvd., El Segundo, CA 90245; telephone [phone], or outside the U.S. [phone]; email [e-mail] or visit www.galorath.com.

About Air Force Materiel Command

Air Force Materiel Command's top-level Mission Essential Tasks and Objectives include product support, information services, supply management, depot maintenance, science and technology, test and evaluation, information management, installations and support, and combat support. Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) was created July 1, 1992. The command was formed through the reorganization of Air Force Logistics Command and Air Force Systems Command with the mission to develop, acquire and sustain aerospace power needed to defend the United States and its interests today and tomorrow. Visit AFMC at www.afmc.wpafb.af.mil.